Loving Simple Living!

Be On The Lookout For Free Stuff!

Every year our city has a Clean-Up Week, where you can throw out almost anything you want and the city will pick it up for free.

“Berm Shopping” has become popular because of all this amazing stuff sitting on the berms, waiting to be picked up by the city. If you drive around picking up this “trash” on the boulevard, you can get some amazing free stuff and all for the price of some gas. (People also post free items on Craigslist and Facebook groups, so there are useful things being given away all the time!)

We like to hunt for discarded items we can recycle, re-purpose or re-use. It’s a great way of getting useful items and keeping things out of the landfill! I want to share some of my finds with you and I’ll show you a tally at the end of what these items would have cost me new!

We actually got a pair of these mid century metal lawn chairs. Vintage lawn chairs are selling for about $85.00 each. $170.00

I am re-purposing this antique school desk as a planting table. A simple planting table sells for about $100.00 and antique desks sell for around $50.00, so let’s say we saved $75.00.

A vintage door. I’ve seen people re-purpose these into benches. That would be a fun project! Vintage doors sell for about $50.00.

Piano guts! I have a few ideas for re-purposing this. I would say the salvageable materials here are worth $100.00